Majestic Wheal Edward On The North Coast Of Cornwall Royalty-Free Stock Photography

Wheal Owles was a tin mine near St Just in Cornwall, the site of a mining disaster in 1893 when twenty miners lost their lives and were drowned. Wheal Owles Mine lies on the cliffs on the north coast of Cornwall, about a mile and a half northeast of Cape Cornwall. The mine is thought to have been an amalgamation of several smaller and more ancient mines including Wheal Drea, Wheal Edward and Wheal Gendall. There is known to have been a mine in this general area from the 1700`s but Wheal Owles` best years were during the decade 1860-70.